February 17, 2021
Francesca Gottardi has served countless hours with the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, including in Georgia where she fought for women's rights.
December 2, 2020
The city of Cleveland will pay a man who was wrongfully convicted of aggravated murder and spent 11 years in prison before he was freed with the help of the Ohio Innocence Project $4.85 million to settle a lawsuit he filed against two city homicide detectives, reports U.S. News & World Report.
July 16, 2020
UC Marketing + Communications gathers recent uplifting stories to help the community focus on the good during coronavirus pandemic.
May 5, 2020
Isiah Andrews was wrongfully convicted in 1975 of murdering his wife of just three weeks. It would take more than 45 years and a team of attorneys and students from the Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati College of Law to uncover evidence that led to his conviction being overturned.
May 18, 2020
The city of Cleveland will pay an $18 million settlement to Rickey Jackson, Wiley Bridgeman and his brother Kwame Ajamu who spent decades in prison for a murder they did not commit. Jackson was freed in 2014 with the help of the OIP at UC College of Law.
September 10, 2020
UC's largest and most diverse class in history was confirmed September 8. With nearly 47,000 students, UC has now seen eight straight years of record enrollment.
April 28, 2020
Innocence Projects across the nation like UC's Ohio Innocence Project work to correct injustice and free those who’ve been wrongfully convicted.
June 15, 2020
The University of Cincinnati community is remembering human rights defender and Urban Morgan Institute founder William J. Butler who died June 7.
August 19, 2020
The Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) at the University of Cincinnati College of Law is making headlines after it filed a motion Monday for a new trial in the case of two men convicted of murder in Ohio’s Lucas County.
November 24, 2020
Attorneys with the Ohio Innocence Project hope new evidence in the case of Michael Sutton and Kenny Phillips will lead to their release.